An engineer has designed a new roller coaster which offers riders a more extreme experience than usual – ending in death.

This theoretical Euthanasia Coaster would kill the rider (Pic: SWNS)

While it might look like the ultimate roller coaster, the Euthanasia is designed to ‘humanely, with elegance and euphoria, take the life of a human being.’

It is designed to subject the rider to a series of extreme experiences that would eventually kill them.

Lithuanian engineer Julijonas Urbonas claims his theoretical creation will cause tunnel vision and – when travelling at 100m/s – death, due to a lack of oxygen reaching the brain.

He said: ‘Thanks to the marriage of the advanced cross-disciplinary research in space medicine, mechanical engineering, material technologies and, of course, gravity, the fatal journey is made pleasing, elegant and meaningful.

‘Celebrating the limits of the human body but also the liberation from the horizontal life, this ‘kinetic sculpture’ is in fact the ultimate roller coaster.’

But the design, which is part of the HUMAN+ exhibition at Trinity College in Dublin, has sparked concern among anti-euthanasia groups.